Finance Business Partner

Reporting to the Senior Financial Accounting Manager (with a dotted line into the GFD Director). The role requires the ability to take informed decisions for meeting reporting requirements. The role has the autonomy to design and develop the initiatives to meet stakeholder requirements and to plan their own and coordinate with the financial, regional and Donor compliance teams. The Financial Business Partner has support responsibility to evaluate, report and capacity build GFD Departments and Select Partner Offices operations. Ensuring GFD Departments and Select Partner Offices maintain and operate under an effective control environment. Minimises the risk of fraud, corruption and bribery. The Financial Business Partner will be responsible for ensuring policies and procedures of
the charity well as local laws are adhered to. The post holder will be expected to travel to each partner office at least once a quarter.

1. Manage the financial service delivery.

• To ensure, coordinate with team members for the effective, efficient service delivery to the GFD Departments and Select Partner Offices in accordance with GFD strategy.
• To understand the GFD Departments and Select Partner Offices business to forward think the financial implications and advise Senior Finance Managers and GFD management / staff accordingly.
• To minimise the risk of Fraud, corruption and bribery in the GFD Departments and Select Partner Offices environment ensuring an effective Internal control environment.
• To regularly visit partner offices to ensure financial practices and processes are being adhered to.

2. Ensure the accurate and timely coordination of provision of financial management information to stakeholders

• To ensure monthly financial management reports are prepared to agreed timeframes in coordination with the financial accounting Manager and GFD.
• To support finance team in the preparations of the year end statutory accounts and audit deliverables.
• To support budget holders in understanding and reviewing results of financial reports.
• To be able to review budgets v actual expenditures and to be able to clearly interpret the results to understand the GFD Departments and Select Partner Offices business and its financial impacts. To be able to advise GFD Departments and Select Partner Offices staff/ management teams accordingly.
• To liaise with GFD and with the Donor compliance, financial accounting and the regional partner office teams
• To communicate projects status to the GFD Director and GFD SMT
• To ensure the accuracy of income and expenditure through monthly analysis ensuring effective liaison with donor support teams, having effective understanding of Gift Aid or equivalent internationally.
• To review intercompany ledgers and maintain accurate intercompany ledger relating to intercompany ledger postings.
• To be responsible for the custody of credit card and the petty cash safe process in partner offices, ensuring regular reviews and minimise risk.
• To be responsible for setting up a process for the approval payments and general journals
• To keep a regular update on gift aids or equivalent claims and to ensure that the amounts are correctly captured and claims are made on time.
• To analyse financial management information, provide interpretation, narrative, raise questions, and identify information needs to develop and support financial decision-making.
• To support improving and updating the fixed asset register and depreciation accounting process.
• Carry on activities connected to ledgers, monitoring and posting income and expenses.
• To ensure local staff in partner countries understand the systems in place with the foresight of not remaining within the country operation for the long term.
• To advise on local banking relationships and regulations for local IR partners.
• To offer advice when selecting new accounting and auditing companies in new partner offices.

3. To support the department and its wider stakeholders

• To ensure and proactively support and coach colleagues to be sensitive to relevant values and principles in the delivery of Organisational Objectives
• Responsible for maintaining own professional development.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties that are consistent with the job and at its level of responsibility as and when required by the Senior Financial Accounting Manager or GFD director.

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Degree in Accountancy/Finance
• Immediate Level Qualified studying final level of ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW professional qualifications
• Evidence of continuing professional development and successful application of best practice in accounting and finance.
• Thorough understanding of donor contractual invoicing; Financial accounting management and management reporting.
• Experience of donor, field office accounting; management accounts, budgets and year end financial reporting.
• Well organised and efficient ability to manage competing deadlines within set time constraints.
• Advance Excel skills; in designing and manipulating reports.
• Experience of providing both challenge and support to a range of stakeholders including nonfinancial audiences at all levels in the organisation.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.